The third type of journey I am referring to is a healing journey I intuitively embark on in search of answers and understanding of my behavior.
Balancing studying, working, and traveling with the self-imposed expectation of being great at all of them was not easy and had repercussions for my overall health.
After years of meeting everyone else’s expectations and having enough of my anxiety, I finally began to listen to that voice inside of me and prioritize myself.
After the trip to Thailand, I decided to quit my job as a doctor and plan the exploration of Asia I had longed to do. Thinking that this might be a little bit too uncommon and crazy, I also started to do therapy and make sure I am mentally ok.
I moved to Spain with a scholarship in Entrepreneurship, and while studying, I dedicated all my spare time to healing physically, mentally, and spiritually.
Reading, therapy, EMDR, meditating, breathwork, sport, and nervous system balancing. You name it, I tried them all. I just wanted to feel better!
A journey that kept revealing and clearing all the stories, emotions, and patterns that kept repeating in my life. This healing journey has been going on and on since then, with each layer shed revealing deeper awareness and knowledge.
If you were to ask me which technique works best, I’d say they all do, in their own way, contribute to overall well-being.
After 5 months of deep work, I was invited to a Shamanic Circle. This experience was the most significant I had up to that point in my life. It felt like everything finally started to make sense and fall into the right place.
The Yoga Teacher Training I did in Bali was life-changing for me, opening me up to a more balanced way of living. That was not really aligned with the initial plan of hopping all over the place in Asia. This marked the beginning of a new style of traveling for me, one more oriented to experiencing the place than to being a tourist.
After Bali, I moved to Thailand, where I alternated between Buddhist monasteries and Shamanic training, learning as much as I could about meditation, Vipassana, Spirits, and natural ancestral Healing.
Each experience deserves a well-extended explanation for itself, so I will leave that for the next Blog posts.